Thu 21 Mar 2024
A special drop-in session is being held at the Vale Douzaine in May to help local employers and the self-employed to prepare for this summer's introduction of mandatory secondary pensions for employees.
Sun 10 Mar 2024
Parishioners will be asked to approve more than £600,000-worth of expenditure for the year on parochial administration, refuse collection, funding the cemetery and maintaining the Vale Church at a meeting to be held next week on the 20th.
Thu 07 Mar 2024
The Vale Douzaine has issued a cautious welcome for ambitions plans from the Guernsey Development Agency to regenerate extensive areas of the area around St Sampson's harbour. This follows members discussing the proposals in detail at their last meeting.
Mon 04 Mar 2024
The dates of two important meetings affecting the Vale have been confirmed – that of the parish meeting, which effectively sets the budget and rates for the year, and the annual general meeting of the Vale Commons Council (VCC).
Mon 19 Feb 2024
The Vale's Senior Constable has praised efforts by a Bridge resident to help make the area a better and brighter place. Bernie Coutu recently launched a one-woman campaign to improve it and Richard Leale said he was delighted by her efforts.
Sun 04 Feb 2024
Suggestions that some of the States’ funding earmarked for helping to kick-start the development of Leale’s Yard could be used for education purposes instead underline how unsatisfactory the whole regeneration project has become, according to Vale parish officials.
Thu 01 Feb 2024
Users of Bordeaux have been warned by Police not to park on the newly-painted safety "pavement" on the sea wall side of Castle Road as they risk committing an offence and being fined.
Wed 24 Jan 2024
A field in the north of the parish has been saved from possible development in the future after its owner left it in perpetuity to the National Trust of Guernsey.
Mon 22 Jan 2024
Dog owners in the Vale are being reminded that they have until the end of the month to get their dogs licenced – and an awful lot are leaving it late to do so!
Thu 18 Jan 2024
Postie Lawson Pipet is one of the best known faces in the Vale. After all, he's been delivering letters and parcels in the parish for nearly 25 years. But there's something not many people know about him – he's got 57 tortoises in his back garden and he even "delivered" some of them himself. And before you say, that's a lot of tortoises, he used to have 81.